Witness Testifies Noriega Laundered $2 Billion Or So

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September 26, 1991

MIAMI — The Medellin cartel poured almost $2 billion into Panama in the early 1980s, some of it aboard Manuel Noriega's plane, a confessed money launderer testified at the deposed Panamanian leader's trial Wednesday. Prosecution witness Eric Guerra said the money was flown into the Panama City airport aboard commercial and private flights, all under the watchful eye of Noriega's intelligence branch. A jet the government says was Noriega's personal plane made several of the flights, Guerra said. Noriega is charged with 10 counts of accepting bribes from the Medellin cartel to use Panama as a way station.